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Workman/industry/teacher

Workman/industry/teacher, imparting of education which is the main function of teachers cannot be considered as skilled or unskilled manual work or supervisory work or technical work or clerical work. Imparting of education is in the nature and

Water-seal latrine

water-seal of 20 millimetres diameter in which human excreta is pushed in or flushed by water. [Employment of Manual Scavangers and Construc-tion of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 (46 of 1993), s. 2(n)]

Tenant

but shall not include a present holder, Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, ss. 5, 6, 7, 8; Punjab Settlement Manual, 1899, pp. 142. Tenant, is a word which standing by itself denotes in law 'one who holds lands

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Surgeon

Surgeon [corrupted fr. chirugeon], is properly one who cures diseases or injuries by manual operation. See MEDICAL PRACTITIONER and PHYSICIAN. The Royal College of Surgeons in England was incorporated by charter of

Signet

Signet, a seal commonly used for the sign-manual of the sovereign. See PRIVY SEAL. An elaborate hand-drawn symbol (usu. incorporat-ing a cross and notary's initials) formerly placed at base of notarial instrument, later replaced by a...

Prerogative of mercy

28) (see Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Criminal Law'), the King may grant a free pardon for felony by sign manual. The practice of obtaining a free pardon before 1848 was fully explained in a letter to the Home

Sessions of the peace

the extension of criminal jurisdiction, see (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, s. 18 and Sch. See Stone's Justices Manual, 68th Edn. pp. 243 et seq., and Archbold, Quarter Sessions, 6th Edn. pp. 461 et seq. Appellate Jurisdiction.--Quarter

Scandal

and the pleadings will not be open to the objection of scandal, if the facts justify the charge, Manual of Equity Pleading and Practice, Eugene A. Jones, 1916, p. 50.

Roman Catholics

to enforce the ss.. See Anstey's Guide to the Law affecting Roman Catholics (1842) and Lilly and Wallis's Manual of the Law specially affecting Catholics (1893). The authors of the latter work, and also the writer of

Rent

matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of

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